(A)
The purpose
of this rule is to provide definitions and describe the provisions of limited
assignment and Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act
of 1996 (PRWORA) assignment.

This rule and its supplemental rules do not apply to medical
support. Medical support assignment is limited to any medical support
obligation that is ordered to be paid during the period that the individual
that is the subject of the medical support obligation is also a medicaid
recipient.

(B)
The
following definitions are applicable to this rule and its supplemental rules:

(1)
"Assignment period" means a finite time
period when support is assigned because public assistance or Title IV-E foster
care maintenance (FCM) benefits are received. Any break in the public
assistance or FCM benefits is a termination of the assignment period.

(3)
"Distribution" means the
monthly process of determining the amount of a support collection the Ohio
department of job and family services (ODJFS) is entitled to retain pursuant to
a public assistance or FCM assignment, and the amount of the collection owed to
the family.

(a)
The support enforcement
tracking system (SETS) calculates distribution during month end processing.

(b)
The child support enforcement
agency (CSEA) shall use the JFS 07027, "Single Order Distribution Record" (rev.
06/1993), and JFS 07028, "Multiple Order Distribution Record" (rev. 06/1993),
to complete distribution on support collections received before a case was
converted to SETS.

(4)
"Former assistance case" means a IV-D case that formerly received public
assistance or FCM benefits.

(5)
"Limited assignment," in accordance with
42 U.S.C.
608(a)(3) (June 18, 2008),
means child, past care, or spousal support is assigned to ODJFS pursuant to a
public assistance assignment only during the period that the child or family
receives public assistance.

"Limited assignment" applies to child, past care, and spousal
support that is assigned on or after October 1, 2009.

(6)
"Personal Responsibility and Work
Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) assignment" means child, past
care, or spousal support is assigned to ODJFS pursuant to a public assistance
assignment in accordance with paragraph (D) of this rule.

"PRWORA assignment" applies to child, past care, and spousal
support that is assigned on or after October 1, 1997 and before October 1,
2009.

(1)
Any public assistance
assignment period that starts on or after October 1, 1997 and before October 1,
2009 is subject to PRWORA assignment provisions, including a public assistance
assignment period that starts before October 1, 2009 and is still active on
October 1, 2009.

(2)
Any public
assistance assignment period that starts on or after October 1, 2009 is subject
to limited assignment provisions.

PRWORA assignment and limited assignment provisions only apply
to a public assistance assignment and do not apply to an FCM or medicaid
assignment.

(ii)
Unassigned
conditionally assigned arrears, created by termination of a previous public
assistance assignment period that was subject to PRWORA assignment provisions,
shall remain unassigned conditionally assigned arrears.

(iii)
Unassigned during assistance arrears,
created by termination of a previous public assistance assignment period that
was subject to PRWORA assignment provisions, shall remain unassigned during
assistance arrears.

(ii)
Unassigned conditionally assigned
arrears, created by termination of a previous public assistance assignment
period that was subject to PRWORA assignment provisions, remain unassigned
conditionally assigned arrears.

(iii)
Unassigned during assistance arrears,
created by termination of a previous public assistance assignment period that
was subject to PRWORA assignment provisions, remain unassigned during
assistance arrears.